%T The diagnosis of mistakes in programmes on the EDSAC
%A S. Gill
%J Proceedings of the Royal Society Series A Mathematical and Physical
Sciences
%V 206
%N 1087
%P 538-554
%D 22 May 1951
%I Cambridge University Press
%C London and New York
%K debugging
%K fast breakpoints
%X This is great, it has everything about debugging, and it's from 1950!

See also:

%A Robert Wahbe
%T Efficient Data Breakpoints
%J Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Architectural
Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-V)
%D October 1992
%P 200-212

;-D oN ( Request for bug-free programs ) Pardo
[Don't miss that EDSAC paper. Every important idea in computer science was
already known by 1960. We've just been working out the details. If you push
me, I might go to 1965. -John]
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